11.   Chilly air will be dislodged from central Canada, setting the stage for the coldest air mass of the season to spread southeastward across the western Great Lakes region.

12.   China, meanwhile, is seeking support for its crackdown on separatists in its western Xinjaing region that borders Afghanistan.

13.   Farms in Iowa, the largest corn and soybean grower, and other states in western growing regions are likely to feel the worst of the heat.

14.   Her father was the governor of Abeokuta, a western region of Nigeria, before the country gained its independence, and she was raised in English boarding schools.

15.   In his offices in the provincial capital, he complained that Khan was trying to re-establish his control over the whole western region.

16.   In Rwanda, he had been the chief pastor of a large church with an affiliated hospital in Mugonero, in the western region of Kibuye.

17.   In this category is the rugged winter weather that will descend on Afghanistan and the western Himalayan region in the next couple of weeks.

18.   Infonet, a U.S.-Venezuelan investment group, won an earlier auction for the western region.

19.   It expanded price controls to all hours of the day, spread the controls throughout the Western region and brought previously excluded power marketers under the tent.

20.   Large numbers of the troops are also stationed in restive Tibet and in the western region of Xinjiang, to help fight a separatist movement of Uighur Muslims.